Michelle Latimer

Michelle Latimer
Latimer in 2015
Born	Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian, Métis, Algonquin
Occupation	Actress, director, filmmaker
Years active	2001–present

Michelle Latimer is a Canadian actress, director and filmmaker of Métis/Algonquin descent. She is perhaps best known for her role as Trish Simpkin in the soap opera Paradise Falls, shown nationally in Canada on Showcase Television, starting in 2001. Since the early 2010s, she has directed several documentary films, including the Canadian Screen Award-nominated Alias (2013).

Latimer was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Ontario. She later studied at Concordia University.

Her largest role so far is as goth teen Trish Simpkin in Paradise Falls. Aside from Paradise Falls, Latimer has had limited roles in other TV productions. In 2004 she had two guest appearances on the low budget Canadian hit show Train 48. She also had a minor appearance in the 2004 film Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

After Paradise Falls, she returned to the stage, starring in Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, written by Brad Fraser. She performed the play in 2004 at Crow's Theatre in Toronto and she played Benita, a psychic prostitute. Like Paradise Falls, the play also had some controversy for its open depiction of sexuality.

She produced and directed an animated film titled Choke, which was funded by bravoFACT and screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was one of five animated shorts nominated for a Genie Award in 2011.

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